investment by applying the methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich
dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the period 2005 to 2013.
We argue that their decomposition framework can also be used in the presence of small
firms with only one banking relationship as long as they account for only a small share of the
total loan volume of their banks. The growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is …